Accelerate the high-quality development of military education
■ Su Liangbo
President Xi pointed out during the fifth collective study in the Political Bureau of the Communist Party of China (CPC) Central Committee that we should persist in taking high-quality development as the lifeline of education at all levels and accelerate the construction of a high-quality education system. Military education is an important part of the national education system and the main channel for training military talents, which plays a fundamental, leading and overall role. We must fully implement the policy of military education in the new era, focus on building a new military talent training system, and accelerate the high-quality development of military education.
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Education is the major plan of the country and the party. In the final analysis, strengthening the country and the army depends on talents and education. With the great journey of high-quality development of national defense and army building, the demand for transformation and upgrading of military education is becoming more and more urgent.
The urgent need to implement the strategy of strengthening the army with talents in the new era. Talent is the key factor to promote the high-quality development of our army, win military competition and take the initiative in future wars. Since the 18th National Congress of the Communist Party of China, President Xi has placed the implementation of the strategy of strengthening the army with talents in the new era in a prominent position in the development of strengthening the army, strengthened the layout of the modernization of military personnel, and made historic achievements in the talent work of our army. But at the same time, we should also be soberly aware that the practical problems such as "two gaps are great", "two abilities are not enough" and "five won’t" are still "obstacles" that need to be solved urgently in preparation for military struggle, and the problem of shortcomings and weaknesses in talent construction is still outstanding. We must accelerate the comprehensive transformation and upgrading of military talents’ ability and quality, structural layout and development management with high-quality military education, and promote the overall level of our military talent team construction to make a big leap to support the full implementation of the strategy of strengthening the army through talents.
An important embodiment of comprehensively implementing the military education policy in the new era. Where is the demand for talents preparing for war, the direction of military education should point to. In the new era, our army’s construction is accelerating the transformation to quality, efficiency and technology-intensive, which puts forward higher requirements for training military talents and running military education well. President Xi had a profound insight into the general trend of the times, accurately grasped the orientation, development law and distinctive features of military education, and historically put forward the military education policy in the new era, which set up a general program, general guidance and general compliance for military education in the new era. To fully implement the military education policy in the new era, we must clearly understand the profound changes in the external environment and internal conditions of our army’s construction, actively explore the laws of military education and the growth of military talents, deepen the reform and innovation of military education, fill in the shortcomings and weaknesses of military education in terms of resource allocation, institutional mechanisms and team building, and push military education to truly embark on the connotative development path with improving quality as the core.
A powerful measure to solve the contradiction problem of military education. The deeper the reform is, the more it needs to exert its strength on deep-seated contradictions and seek benefits from high-quality development. In the historical process of comprehensively implementing the reform to strengthen the army, the new military personnel training system, which is a trinity of military academy education, military training practice and military vocational education, is more perfect, but the overall educational efficiency of military education is still not obvious. The problem of "emphasizing use and neglecting training" in military personnel work still exists, and the function of military vocational education has not been fully exerted. The reform and development of military education is in a critical period of history. To solve these contradictions, we must firmly establish the concept of high-quality development, persist in solving the contradictions in the development of military education with reform and innovation, promote the transformation and upgrading of military education, and improve the level of running schools and the quality of personnel training.
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Quality is the life of education. To promote the high-quality development of military education, we should be guided by the correct political direction and new development concept, take meeting the demand of military education from the strategy of strengthening the army with talents as our mission, follow the law, be driven by innovation, cultivate internal strength, improve quality, and strive to cultivate high-quality and professional new military talents with both ability and political integrity.
Taking moral education as the fundamental task. It is a fine tradition and political advantage of our army to strengthen moral education and equip officers and men with the party’s innovative theory. To promote the high-quality development of military education, we must highlight the value orientation of Lide Shuren, always insist on running schools and educating people ideologically and politically, put moral education first, put political quality first, put ideological and political work throughout the whole process of military education, solidly promote the "three entrances" of the party’s innovation theory, guide officers and men to strengthen their ideals and beliefs, keep in mind their initial mission, and strive to win the army, so as to realize the whole process and all-round education and ensure the absolute loyalty and purity of the trained talents.
Think that educating people through war is the core orientation. Serving for war is the value and responsibility of military education. High-quality military education must be an education to cultivate talents who can win the battle. We must always face the battlefield, the troops and the future, take the war as a guide and grasp the teaching as a battle, earnestly implement the combat effectiveness standard throughout the whole process of military education, and promote all school-running activities to focus on being able to fight and win the battle. We must pay close attention to the actual combat education and training, teach what we need in the war and practice what the troops need, focus on improving the true skills and hard work of officers and men in preparing for the war, and effectively make the supply side of talent training accurately connect with the demand side of the future battlefield, and move toward the troops, actual combat and the future.
Take deepening reform and connotation development as the basic path. Rebuilding the docking system, deepening reform and innovation, and taking the connotative development road with improving quality as the core are the inherent requirements for the high-quality development of military education. We must persist in confronting contradictions and solving difficult problems with innovative ideas and methods, continuously stimulate the vitality and potential of the military education system, and build excellent courses, teaching materials and teachers closely related to personnel training. We must persist in seeking benefits from connotation, improve the quality of running a school and the efficiency of cultivating talents, constantly optimize the system structure, upgrade the internal quality, integrate superior resources, lay a solid foundation for development, and tap our own potential, so as to explore a new way of high-quality development that is open, integrated and intensive.
The goal is to cultivate high-quality, professional new military talents with both ability and political integrity. The fundamental goal of education is to educate people and cultivate new people of the times who can shoulder the heavy responsibility of strengthening the army. To promote the high-quality development of military education, we must set new standards and requirements for military education "who to train", so that the trained talents can meet the specifications of "having both ability and political integrity", "high quality" and "specialization", which truly meets the needs of army building and future wars. Having both ability and political integrity means being politically competent and capable; High quality means having a world vision, adapting to the requirements of the times and being worthy of the heavy responsibility of strengthening the army; Specialization means that all kinds of military personnel should have the professionalism, professional knowledge, professional skills, professional accomplishment and so on needed to perform their duties.
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Today, standing at the historical intersection of the new era, we need high-quality military education more than ever before, and look forward to more and more military talent resources more than ever before. We must promote the formation of a joint effort to grasp military education and talent training with greater determination and pragmatic measures.
Strengthen the new military personnel training system. Talent cultivation is a systematic project. It is necessary to meet the needs of national defense and army building, accurately grasp the functional orientation, essential connotation and focus of the trinity new military personnel training system, do a good job in overall planning of the talent team, the "next article" of college reform, and the overall optimization of military education, re-examine the orientation of running schools, scientifically concise the ideas of running schools, and form a pattern of running schools and educating people with clear functions and organic connection. It is necessary to optimize the training paths of all kinds of talents, give full play to the unique functions and respective advantages of strengthening the foundation of military academy education, transforming and applying military training practice, and expanding and improving military vocational education around the goal of educating people in one body, and effectively link up the talent training links between colleges and troops, theory and practice, and classroom and battlefield.
Implement the priority development strategy of colleges and universities. Governing the army first governs the school, and strengthening the army must strengthen the school. It is necessary to strengthen the awareness of priority, and deeply understand the extreme importance of military academies as the main channel for training military talents from the perspective that human resources are the first resource and education is the most fundamental cause of a nation. It is necessary to take practical priority measures, take the construction of colleges and universities as an important first move to promote the development of military construction, establish the orientation of running schools with excellent talents and high-quality resources, and truly implement the priority development strategy. It is necessary to improve the priority mechanism, put the reform and development of military education on the important agenda, and truly give priority to the development of colleges and universities in terms of organization and leadership, development planning and resource allocation. It is necessary to form a priority joint force, and be willing to put the best talents, the most scarce funds and the most advanced equipment into colleges and universities, so as to form a large-scale pattern and system for the construction of colleges and universities jointly supported by military commission organs, colleges and universities, troops and localities and educated by Qi Xin, and to build a cohesive force.
Deepen the reform and innovation of education and teaching. Reform and innovation is the eternal theme of education and teaching. It is necessary to strengthen the top-level design and long-term planning of military education, promote the reform of educational methods, school-running models, management systems and guarantee mechanisms as a whole, and accelerate the innovation of school-running models and operational mechanisms. It is necessary to build a first-class discipline and specialty system, adhere to the development idea of fighting for the war, cultivating the new, supporting the special and strengthening the strength, optimize the layout of disciplines and specialties, lay a solid foundation for disciplines and specialties, strengthen the cultivation of new fields and new quality disciplines, highlight the construction of teaching system focusing on courses and textbooks, and comprehensively improve the level of disciplines and specialties. It is necessary to innovate the training mode of education and teaching, give full play to the leading role of teaching, stimulate the endogenous motivation of learning, establish the actual combat standard of training, enhance the comprehensive benefits of management, and promote the synchronization of teaching and research, the integration of learning and training, and the consistency of training and warfare. It is necessary to focus on building a high-level teaching staff, make full use of high-quality educational strength and resources, improve the teacher training system, stimulate the vitality of the teaching staff, and train a group of famous teachers who are familiar with actual combat and behavior. It is necessary to improve the supporting system and mechanism, strengthen the practical exploration of talent quality standards, talent training mode, teaching quality control and education management operation, and form an institutional arrangement and operation mode suitable for the new system.
Expand the new pattern of open education. Opening schools is an important feature of the development of modern education. It is necessary to conform to the development trend of modern education concept, talent concept and ubiquitous education, make efforts to promote the integrated layout of talent training to develop in depth, put military education into the general trend of education development to examine and consider, and realize joint education, open education and whole-process education; Efforts will be made to promote the all-round and deep integration of military personnel training into the national education system, support military academies to participate extensively in the corresponding national education construction projects and reform plans, and rely on the talent resources and knowledge advantages in national education to promote the training of outstanding military personnel; Efforts will be made to deepen international exchanges and cooperation in military education in the overall situation of national politics and diplomacy, cultivate a global vision, enhance the ability and quality, promote the talent training practice of our army to go abroad and go global, and enhance the international influence and competitiveness of military education.
(Author: School of Political Science, National Defense University)
